Lawrence College bulletin

THE

LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

APPLETON, WIS.

VOL. IX.

SEPTEMBER, 1908.

NO 6

The Bulletin is published quarterly at Appleton, by Lawrence University.
Entered at the post office at Appleton, as second class matter.

OUR OPENING

Lawrence opens its fifty-ninth year of school work with the
largest enrollment in its history, and in the best condition it has
ever been to do the highest grade of college work. The institu-
tion has been growing steadily from year to year, and indications
now are that we shall not fall behind the nsual ratio of increase.
Last year our Freshman class was larger than that of any two
colleges in the state, reaching a total of 177. It is too early to
give the enrollment of the entering class this year, as students
are still 'coming in; but the attendance is about 75 more in the
college proper than one year ago. While we miss many old faces
the students who have previously attended seem to be back in
greater numbers than usual. Every thing points to the best year
in the college's history.

OUR NEW PROFESSORS

The entire teaching force of last year was retained, and all
are in their places, except Prof. Rosebush who will spend the
first semester in the University of Berlin. He will be on hand
to take his classes the second semester. Mr. Curtis, a graduate
student at the University of Wisconsin, will supply in the de-
partment of economics until Prof. Rosebush returns. He is a
graduate of the Nebraska Wesleyan University and has been do-
ing graduate work in the department of Economics at Wisconsin.
Dr. Ely and other professors there speak in the highest terms of
his work.

Prof. 0. F, Fairfield was elected by the trustees to fill the
new chair of Rhetoric. He has for thirteen years been a profes-
sor in Alfred University, New York. His principle work has
long been in the department of English, and he comes to us with
the highest testimonials. Has graduate work was done in the
University of Chicago. Prof. Fairfield is a man of wide general
culture and has enriched his special education by extensive trav-

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el, having spent his summers in Europe for a number of years.
He is said to be very proficient as public lecturer on art and also
on literature. His wife and family will be distinct acquisitions
to our college circles. We have no doubt that Prof. Fairfield
will soon gain a large place in the esteem of the students and
friends of Lawrence.

Mr. Earl Scheffel will have charge of the work in geology, a
chair which has not been filled since the death of Prof. Nichol-
son one year ago. Mr. Scheffel is a graduate of Dennison Uni-
versity and has done extensive graduate work in Geology. He
comes to us highly recommended and we have no doubt will
take hold of this department with vigor.

Mr. E. Deming is a graduate of the engineering department
of the Iowa State College at Ames, Iowa. He did some work as
instructor last year and comes to us to assist Prof. Lymer in the
mathematical department. He will especially have charge of the
classes taken by those who expect to become engineers. While
we do not expect to establish a full engineering course, the de-
mand is great upon us for the first two years of such a course.
This we hope now to be able to give to the full satisfaction of our
students. Mr. Deming is recommended to us as an exceptionally
capable man.

With our faculty thus enlarged and strengthened we are in
position to do even better work than heretofore.

NEW PEOPEETIES

The trustees, realizing the pressure upon them to accommo-
date the increasing attendance of students, have during the sum-
mer purchased two excellent pieces of propert}^ one adjacent to
the campus on the west, and another one block distant. The for-
mer will be called the "Lawrence House" and will furnish addi-
tional accommodations for girls. It has been a commodious resi-
dence, and has some very attractive rooms for young women.
Notwithstanding this increase in our accommodations, and the
fact that last year we added to Ormsby Hall rooms for fifty addi-
tional girls, several weeks before school opned, every room in our
three dormitories for women were taken. A few, however, were
accommodated later by the fact that several girls surrendered
their rooms owing to sickness or other matters interfering with
their return.

The other property has been fitted up for a residence for
young men, and as a boarding club. It is called after the college
colors, the Blue and White Club. We have no doubt that this
will prove a popular rooming and boarding place for boys.
Prices have been put at the moderate figure of $3.50 per week
for room and board and $2.75 for meals. It is expected that
the trustees will erect a large dormitory for men on the site of
ibis building in the very near future, considerable money having

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already been given for this purpose. A canvass is now in pro-
gress to secure the remainder.

COLLEGE INN

The College Inn is a new institution which already has be-
come popular. What has long been known as the Park Hotel.,
adjacent the campus on College avenue, has been rented by two
upper classmen who have transformed it into a large college club
house. It has been very artistically fitted up and every con-
venience provided for the accommodation of students. About
twenty roomers will be taken, and fifty regular table boarders.
Besides this there is a lunch counter and a grill room, open at all
hours for both student and city custom.

The College Inn reflects great credit on the students who
have it in charge. They have made most of their own furniture
which for artistic qualities is not surpassed by the finest down
towns eating places. It is to be hoped that they will realize the
financial returns they expect, as they have undertaken this work
as a means of putting themselves through school. The prospects
for the new institution are excellent and we do not doubt it will
prove one of our most popular student boarding places.

ORMSBY HALL IMPROVEMENTS

A year ago a large addition was built to Ormsby hall and oth-
er extensive improvements made. It was thought that it would
be adequate to our needs for some years to come; but when the
year opened we found not only was every room taken but we had
to find rooms for students in private families. It was also dis-
covered that our large dining room was not adequate to the de-
mands made upon it. Since we now have another rooming
house, it seemed necessary to enlarge the dining room if the new
students were to be taken care of. Consequently during the va-
cation, changes have been made which materially increase the
size of the eating accommodations. We can now take care of
abflut 180 boarders in our dining room without being crowded.
The addition has also much, improved the appearance of the
room, and changes have been made in the serving room which
will be of decided advantage. It is thought that the enlarged
dining room will make it possible to hold the commencement
banquet at Ormsby instead of the gymnasium as heretofore.

OTHER IMPROVEMENTS

Extensive improvements have been made in several buildings
during the summer, a large number of workmen having been em-
ployed during the entire vacation. In Science Hall there have
been new cases as well as other equipment added and extensive
decorations made. The gymnasium has undergone extensive re-

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pairs. University Hall has also received considerable attention.
The buildings are all in fine condition for the opening of the
school year.

The most extensive piece of work, however, has been in con-
nection with the heating plant. The pipe line connecting the li-
brary with the boiler house, a distance of over seven hundred
feet, has been taken up and relaid. This was made necessary by
improper work which was done when the pipe was put it, render-
ing a considerable loss of heat inevitable. It is believed that the
work now done will prove entirely satisfactory.

REV. A. L. TULL, FINANCIAL SECRETARY

Two years ago the trustees secured the Rev. A. L. Tull of the
West Wisconsin Conference to act as field secretary. Mr. Tull
had won a reputation as a money raiser in connection with many
church enterprises. He undertook the work with enthusiasm
and has been a most conscientious worker. During the two
years he has seen hundreds of people in the interests of the
college and rendered excellent service. He has resigned his posi-
tion at his own option, as he wishes to again resume the work
of the pastorate. The college acknowledges the earnest efforts
Mr. Tull has made in its behalf and trusts that in returning to
his work as pastor of a church he will have great happiness and
ready access to the hearts of the people. No one has ever served
the college as field secretary more conscientiously and faithfully
than Mr. Tull. Our best wishes go with him to his new field of
labor.

CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC

The Lawrence Conservatory has opened with flattering pros-
pects for a very successful year. Under the direction of Mr. Har-
per the faculty has been materially increased and the plans for
work and usefulness much enlarged. We now have two teachers of
vocal music, three on piano, one on the organ, one on violin, and
one in public school music. The enrollment is encouraging, and
there is no doubt that the Conservatory will have its most prosper-
ous year. There will be many recitals, and other musical events.
Mr. Harper will have several musical organizations, and all that
energy can do to make the Conservatory the first school of music
in the state will be done. There is a fine opportunity in Apple-
ton to build up a large school, as there is no other conservatory
of any note in Wisconsin, unless it be the one in .Milwaukee. As
a very high quality of talent has been engaged on the teaching
force, we believe the public will soon wake up to the Conserva-
tory^ merits and give it the patronage it deserves.

ARTISTS' COURSE

Mr. Barper of the Conservatory of Music is arranging an
A " Course of musicaJ events which will be one of the fea-

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hires of the Conservatory's work. He has leased the Opera
House for a number of nights, and will bring to the city a num-
ber of artists of national reputation. Only persons of the very
highest grade of talent will be engaged. The tickets sell for
three dollars for the course. Already seats enough have been
sold to insure the success of the venture. This course is intro-
duced in order to give the students of the Conservatory the op-
portunity to hear the leading artists of the country, as it is recog-
nized that this is a significant part of a musical education. This
course will overcome the disadvantage which it is sometimes
thought pertains to a conservatory in a smaller city.

COXSULTATIOX HOTTB

The faculty of Lawrence has long realized that the only
function of a teacher is not to lecture or direct work in a labora-
tory : but also to render such service to the student as an intimate
acquaintance will make possible. Efforts in manv wavs have
been put forth to increase "the personal touch," and make
friendship between student and teacher intimate and helpful.
The class officer system is valuable to this end. since it puts every
student under the care of some teacher who advises him concern-
ing his work, and looks after his proficiency. The present year
we have introduced a new feature, name regularly appointed
periods each week when every teacher will be in his iecture room
to meet all persons who may call upon him to consult about their
studies, or any other matters on which they may wish counsel.

It is hoped that the students will largely avail themselves
of this privilege, and that not only in matters of school work,
but matters affecting life, the consultation hour may prove a
great benefit. We have no doubt that this will prove to be the
case

WHAT WE HAVE

1. A record of nearly sixty years of excellent work.

2. A large and honorable body of alumni.

3. A large number of men and women, who while not com-
pleting a full college course, received at Lawrence a thorough
education, and have done excellent work in the world.

4. A beautiful and healthful location.

5. The confidence of many generous patrons and friends
whose help has made the institution what it is.

6. Five large and five smaller buildings together with ex-
tensive laboratory, museum, and library equipment.

7. A plant and productive endowment worth more than
a million dollars.

8. A splendid faculty of thirty-six teachers.

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9. The largest attendance of any college in the state, the
University of Wisconsin not being counted a college.

10. An increasing student body. The recent growth of the
college has been remarkable.

11. A school organization that has received warm praise
from educators of national reputation.

12. Prospects for the greatest usefulness for generations to
come.

WHAT WE NEED

1. Twenty-five thousand dollars to complete the sum neces-
sary to erect a chapel, $19,000 being already subscribed.

2. Thirty thousand dollars to increase the amount in hand
to build the Boys' Dormitory.

3. A building for the Academy.

4. Another dormitory for girls.

5. A sufficient increase to our endowment to make it
$1,000,000.

6. A large number of persons who will make annuity gifts.

COL. VILAS' WILL

The death of Col. Vilas was much regretted by his many
admirers in Wisconsin as he was in some respects our most dis-
tinguished citizen. For many years he had been known as a
man of exceptional ability, not only as a lawyer, but as a states-
man. He has occupied positions of trust in the state and nation,
and has discharged his public duties with honor to himself and
the commonwealth.

During his life Col. Vilas had not won the reputation of be-
ing an especially generous man, although interested in many good
causes. Therefore, the public was not expecting the magnificent
bequest contained in his last will and testament, which provides
that his entire estate, subject to an annuity to his wife and
daughter during their lives, shall go to the University of Wis-
consin to be held in trust until it shall reach the vast sum of
$30,000,000, when the principal shall be turned over to the
regents. This money is to be used in building a memorial
theater to cost over a million, and to endow scholarships and
professorships. It will be many years before the full gift be-
comes available, but with the state behind the institution it can
wait.

This gift is one of the greatest ever made to education in this
country, and the largest ever given to any cause by a citizen of
W I -cousin. It is a noble contribution to the good of society, and
will render the name of Col. Vilas immortal in the history of
the state and country. What wiser use could be made of money

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than to put it into the cause of education, on which the progress
of society depends? How much more noble to thus devote the
fruit of one's life to the welfare of humanity, than to give it to
descendants, generally to pauperize their morals while enriching
their purses. Few families have been blessed by the inheritance
of large wealth. It has generally been the open door to pride,
arrogance, laziness, snobbishness, frivolity, profligacy and dissi-
pation. The men who earn fortunes are usually honorable and
able, but the men who inherit them are often ruined by what is
handed down the ancestral line. But money left to public in-
stitutions, and especially to education, is a course of continued
blessing. Col. Vilas has set the rich men of Wisconsin a noble
example and we trust that many others will manifest like wis-
dom in the disposition of their estates.

ANNUITY GIFTS

During the past three or four years Lawrence has received
a number of Annuity gifts which are proving very satisfactory to
the donors. Money is received and a bond given that the college
will pay to the contributor a certain amount e'ach year during
life, and then the principal shall become a part of the endow-
ment fund of the university. This relieves the individual of all
care and risk in investments, makes him comfortable in the
knowledge that on a certain day a fixed sum will be forthcoming,
and further enables him to feel that when he is through with his
money it will live after him and do good to multitudes of young
men and young women. Persons without heirs especially find
this proposition attractive. Gifts are taken and the annuity
made to go to any party the donor may wish, either before or
after the individual's death, as he may select. In cases where
one has dependents not capable of managing their own affairs,
an annuity is frequently an attractive proposition. Any one
wishing to learn more of our annuity plan will write to the
president of the University.

A BOYS' DORMITORY

The next building erected at Lawrence must be a boys'
dormitory. We are in much need of different accommodations
for the young men who in increasing numbers are matriculating
at Lawrence. At present men students find rooms in private
houses or in residences operated by fraternities. This year there
is also a hotel and a residence used as a club house. It is very7
much to be desired that the men students come more closely
together, and this can best be accomplished by a commons or a
large dormitory. Xo small part of the advantage of a college
course comes from the student's contact with his fellows, and
the closer this is the more the benefit received.

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During the past year we have been raising money for this
object, but the times have been against us. The fact that the
year previous we raised $225,000 for endowment, and the raising
of $19,000 for a chapel during the year have made the dormitory
project more difficult. We hope during the next few months to
double the amount obtained for the chapel, and to secure suffi-
cient funds for the dormitory to warrant its erection during the
coming season. It is hoped that the friends of education in the
state will take an interest in this needed addition to our equip-
ment, and that sufficient funds for our purpose will soon be
forthcoming. We shall be interested to hear from any person
who is willing to help this building along. Any one who will
give half its cost may have the privilege of naming the building.

LAWBENCE AND WISCONSIN HIGH SCHOOLS

One of the most important questions for any commonwealth
is the preparation of teachers for the public schools. These in-
stitutions shape the destiny of the state and nation. Close
their doors, let instruction be shabby, let the work of public
education be poorly done and society will deteriorate rather than
progress. Biut the problem of the school, as has been said, is to
find the schoolmaster. If the teachers are able and strong, the
school will be thorough and helpful and efficient. But from
whence are the teachers to come? The answer is from the high-
er schools in the commonwealth. Any institution which is equip-
ping teachers for the public schools is rendering splendid service
to the state.

The question where the teachers of our high schools are re-
ceiving their training is answered by certain statistics presented
in the last number of The Wisconsin Journal of Education. Dr.
E. C. Elliott of the University School of Education has con-
ducted an investigation which shows that about 450 new teach-
ers are needed each year for the high schools of the state. These
come the present year from 74 universities, colleges, normal
and technical schools; but of this list only three institutions
furnish more teachers for the high schools of Wisconsin than
Lawrence University; and if the full list of Lawrence teachers
had been counted (there is a mistake of four) it would have been
third. There are in the state seven normal schools doing work
but only that in Milwaukee, by a correct count, has given the
state as many high school teachers as our own college. No col-
tege in Wisconsin equals us. And this work is done without a
(-,ni of expense to the state. This is a strong showng in one
particular of the service our college is rendering the common-
wr-jilih, mikI points to one of the many reasons why the public
should be interested in the institution.

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HOW TO SECUEE FAME

Describing in clear contrast the man of business with the
man of study, the man of dreams with the man of action, the
philosopher and the merchant, Judge J. G. Jenkins in his ad-
dress before the Westminster Civic league portrayed the perfect
type of man, who unites in himself the characteristics both of the
scholar and the man of affairs. Judge Jenkins addressed his
remarks to the merchant of today.

Remember Duty as Citizen

"The merchant of today is the heir of all the ages," he said.
"The students of the past wrought not for themselves but for
you. The thoughts conceived in the brains of the thinkers. of
the past are today pouring wealth into your coffers. You are
living on the brain of the past. You are merchant princes of
today because the student, the thinker, the dreamer have sacri-
ficed life and comfort and luxurious ease and have lived hard,
laborious lives to study out, to think out, to dream out those
secrets of nature which made wealth possible to you.

"But you ask, 'What can I do ?' Much, if you would. Cease
to think that trade is the chief end of man. Don't be so am-
bitious to gain and hoard up wealth that you become blind to
your duty as a citizen. Don't allow that duty to be vicariously
performed by the politician. Let not your main ambition be to
get rich.

"Be a merchant prince — princely in fortune — that's all
right; but princely also in your ways and thoughts, princely in
your benefactions. Take personal interest in the schools, the
teachers and the scholars. Be active and potential to enlarge the
means of education.

Leaving Great Wealth by Will

"We all desire the good opinion of our fellows. Some rich
men seek to build up a posthumous fame by legacies to public
uses, through a last will and testament. If you are moved to
pay any part of your debt to the past by benefactions to the
cause of education, or by pecuniary aid to struggling genius and
worth, do not do it by a last will and testament. The act is then
shorn of half its grace and worth, for you were obliged to let go
your hold on your money anyway. You clung to it as long as
you could, and death alone could relax your grasp. There is no
merit in that.

"Besides, the disposition by will gives opportunity for mis-
construction of your wishes. You have despised lawyer and
grammar, and drawn your own will. You have not used apt
phrases in which to clothe your wishes. And so litigating heirs
and sharp lawyers hold a coroner's inquest on your estate, and
defaulting trustees dispose of the remains.

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"Don't leave great wealth, to your children. Nine times out
of ten it is a curse to them. Give them rather the legacy of a
thorough education, of which no adversity can deprive them,
and of a good name which is above all riches.

With Gould and Sage Forgotten

"Be your own executor now while you have health and wealth
and the mind is clear and strong. Execute yourself some grand
design for the advance of your race, your city, your country.
Thence will come the satisfaction of benefit worthily bestowed
and of witnessing the growth and enjoying the fruit of the good
tree of your own planting. So shall you build for yourself a
habitation in the love and esteem of your fellowmen, a monu-
ment more enduring than marble, and attain to that immortal-
ity of fame that flows from noble deeds.

"The memory of those model merchant princes, George
Peabody and Peter Cooper, will be honored and held in loving
keeping when Jay Gould and Eussell Sage lie in forgotten graves
and their names are no more known among men."

A rising vote of thanks was extended to Judge Jenkins
at the conclusion of his address, and remarks were made by the
Eev. Everett A. Cutler, W. J. Butler and others. — Milwaukee
Free Press.

DOES THE EDUCATED BOY HAVE THE ADVANTAGE ?

What of the educated boy ? Is he worth while ? If it is an-
swered "yes," a practical man will come along and say "I doubt
it," Then he gives reasons. But when a man knows what he
is talking about it is worth while to pay attention. James M.
Dodge, president of the American .Society of Mechanical Engi-
neering, has gotten at the question in the "scientific way."

Mr. Dodge takes this question : With the young people them-
selves as the "capital" and their wages as "interest" what influ-
ence has a college or technical education on the earning power
or increased capital ? If we were to say Mr. Dodge finds the
educated man or woman earns nearly three times as much as
the uneducated, would you believe it? Let us see. Mr. Dodge
gathered facts from practical life. He puts them together and
forms scientific conclusions. He did it this way:

Ijet us start with the average boy of sixteen, and assume
that he is worth to himself in earning power $3,000 ; this is his
potential capital — himself viewed only as an economic proposi-
tion. At this point we will assume that he is as yet neither
skilled in any craft, nor shop-trained, nor has he had the bene-
fit of any trade school, or even been in any school of technology,
or a college. Bence, four possibilities lie before him: (1) To
remain ;m unskilled laborer. (2) To get a shop training. (3)

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To go to a trade school. (4) To acquire a liberal education.
Start four boys, then, on the four lines and let us see what
influence training of an equal sort actually has as measured by
money returns.

1. The Unskilled Laborer. — On the average he is earning
$4.00 a week at the end of his sixteenth year; $5.0C a week a
year later, and his advance continues with regularity to his
twenty-second year, when he is worth as "capital" to himself
$10,000, and he has a wage-earning capacity of $10.20 a week.
But here he reaches the highest economic value of unskilled la-
bor, which will not significantly increase in value however many
years he may add.

2. The Shop-trained Worker. Even his narrower rule-of-
thumb training pays good interest from the start; in six years
he has passed the unskilled laborer; by the time he is twenty-
four, however, he has reached his maximum, his potential capi-
tal is $15,000, and his wage $15.20 a week. This is the highest
point reached by the shop worker.

3. The Trade School Young Man. —The early broadening
of his work immediately brings better wages. Before he is
eighteen he may have distanced that twenty-fifth year man, and
its potential capitalization of $22,000. The college trained man,
on the average, shoots up in seven years more to an earning
power of $43 a week, and has not yet reached his full economic
horizon. A liberal education has added a capitalization of
$21,000 over all competitors (from $22,000 to $43,000). Edu-
cation took him at the age of sixteen at $3,000 ; it leaves him at
thirty-two years at $43,090.

How about it, young man and young woman? How about
it, parents of children ? Is it worth while to ignore the lack of
education and of acquiring an education? — Butler Eagle..

SCHOLAESHIP OF ATHLETES

An investigation has recently been made by Professor
Phillips upon the relative scholarship standing of athletic and
non-athletic men in Amherst College. He compared the records
of the men in the various athletic teams and he found that on
the whole the football men had the lowest records. The general
averages for 318 different athletes and about 1,700 different non-
athletes shows that the latter made an average record of 74.4
per cent, while the former attained only 70.4 per cent. Profes-
sor Phillips reaches the following conclusions from his study:

"First, that the average scholarship of men competing on
varisty football, baseball and track teams in various schools and
colleges is, if uncontrolled, below that of their fellows by an
amount approximating four per cent, that it is the lowest in the
football, next in the baseball, and highest in the track team;

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that this difference is due to the large number of Low-rank men
on these teams and the small number of high-rank men as com-
pared with the non-athletic students; and that the low rank of
these athletes may, in the case of football and baseball, in large
measure, be ascribed to the effect of being on these teams and not
primarily to incapacity." — Wisconsin Journal of Education.

THE MATERIAL AND THE SPIRITUAL

Things material are abundant. Our mills and factories are
numerous, large, and prosperous, but things material, including
money itself, should only be the foundation upon which are
reared things spiritual. Our mines of coal and iron have not
completed their mission when transmuted into dollars. Not till
the dollars are transmuted into service for others has wealth
completely justified its existence. Dollars are only dross until
spiritualized, a means to an end, and miserable Is the man,
mean and squalid his life, who knows no better than to deaden
his soul by mere possession, counting over the hoard which holds
him down or using his faculties in old age in augmenting the
useless stuff which ministers not to any taste worthy of man.

Little does and little can the speculator on the exchange or
the mere dollar grabber in any line of activity know of the high-
er pleasure of human existence. Only when a man labors for
the general good and for other than general aims that end with
self can he know and enjoy the high spiritual rewards of life.
— Andrew Carnegie.

SMALLER COLLEGES FOR BOYS

A man well able to send his son to the state institution of
his state or to an eastern university, surprised every one by send-
ing the boy to a small college.

When asked the reason why, he said: "Because the young
men with ideals and big hopes come from the smaller colleges."

He did not disapprove of the modern materialist, the young
man who emerges from big institutions. But he did believe in
the young man of twenty or thirty years back who went forth
to fight his way with large ambitions and a determined purpose,
the product of a small college.

Idealism in Education

The idealistic side of an education, the father considered,
wslb overlooked in a large institution, and formed a part of the
spiril of the smaller one.

"It is true, no doubt, that a large university can offer a great-
er variety of advantages to the aspirant, having a larger number
of Bpecial departments," said litis num. "The best results of a

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purely intellectual training ought and possibly do come from
well equipped universities. The colleges, however, bear in mind
that character is more than this.

"Also men and women agree in the thought that scholarship,
intellectual life, according to the best conception, should be the
central concern of the young man and woman while pursuing
their higher training, but the colleges in addition to this feel
that an all around education involves the moral character as well
as the intellectual.

Slww Tendency of Times

"The present era is a revival of intellectual activity, almost
at the sacrifice of vigorous, virile characters. The larger in-
stitutions show the tendencies of the times.

"The smaller colleges and academies represent the old idea
of character and intellect, versus much intellect.

"The development of the large institution is substantially
higher than that of a generation ago, but it has been at the cost
of- vitality.

"In the years past the smaller institutions have made heroic
struggles to secure a higher education, and have been of great
benefit to the people in enabling them to gain better and greater
opportunities. They have kept alive the moral and intellectual
life of the people, often attended with great sacrifice and devo-
tion of their leaders.

Pervaded with Strength

"The colleges existing today in Wisconsin have survived a
great number chartered in the pioneer days, and from their
struggles and efforts to maintain a high standard they are per-
vaded with an atmosphere of strength and high purpose which
is an hereditary bequeathed to them.

"Their teachers now, as always, cultivated, refined, scholar-
ly men and women, have and still exert a strong influence in
shaping the character of their students and the character of
the community.

"In the courses of study, they endeavor to keep up the re-
quirement of the times and are constantly adding new equip-
ment and special departments in an effort to appeal to the young
men and women who come from the high schools.

B rings Out Individuality

"That a higher education is an asset is recognized without
argument. The work of the world, commercial and otherwise,
is some day going to be done by college and university graduates.
There are, of course, some failures among them, but for every
failure there are many who make good.

"The college gives the greatest opportunity to bring out the
individuality of the young man or woman. It must be remem-

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bered, however, that it cannot make brains, but can train them,
and in a way that makes the student more valuable as a rule
in enterprises aiming toward advancement." — Milwaukee Jour-
nal.

A MESSAGE FOR TODAY

Keep the balance ! Life is more than a living. Learning
has a value of its own in life, even when it does not appear to
make increase of bread and butter. The college graduate may
never consciously use his Latin and Greek, but he sees every-
thing else with richer enjoyment because of the Latinity and
Hellenism which has become part of him. He is the better not
because of what he will do with his Latin and Greek, but because
of what his Latin and Greek will do with him. The student's
peril is not breadth but shallowness; and that affects not the
quantity but the quality of his work. Let the student strive for
breadth ; the wider his range where it consists, as it may consist
perfectly, with thoroughness, the ampler and richer his reward
will be. A large part of God's revelation of Himself is denied
the man who has neglected his botany, his biology, his geology,
his astronomy, his chemistry. It is all very well to be a spe-
cialist; but the specialist is all the better in his specialty on the
basis of broad and generous information and sympathies. It is
never a question of knowing one thing well and knowing many
things superficially; it is only a question of having all your
knowledge sound so far as it goes. This is the opportunity of
the student in his school and university course; as the years go
on the work of life necessarily narrows one. Let him therefore
make the most of his opportunity. Much of the knowledge he
acquires may seem to have but a remote bearing upon the issue
of getting a living; but every item of it will have its bearing
upon the enrichment and sweetening of life. — Epworth Herald.

A FATHER'S VERDICT

What a delightful old man he was ! He was out of active
business, living on a very moderate income, in a simple but com-
fortable way, just a plain, cheerful life. All the people in the
village and country round about knew him. Some of them
called him affectionately by his first name. It took a good while
for him to walk up or down street; he had to speak to so many
people, young and old, rich and poor ; to send so many messages
of cheer, and to scatter such a lot of sunshine as he went along.
The Psalmist would have put him into a psalm, if he had known
him. He did write several psalms for just such people as this
cheerful, white-haired man. His children were no longer at
home with him, though he was never quite unconscious of them.

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He told me that he knew all about those Scotch parents and
their scholar son — the Eoss parents and the Professor — in Mac-
larems stories, but he, like them, would have scorned to boast.
He was speaking one day of a neighbor, a very rich man.
This neighbor had just made a lot of money which he did not
need. The neighbor had been telling him about his splendid
investment which had doubled his money in an incredibly short
time. It was the talk of the small town, and there were many
to envy the man who had struck it rich. It is ever so. Every-
thing he touched turned to gold, and people called him "for-
tunate." So he was, within limits, though such fortune has to be
understood and explained. My old friend did not envy his rich
neighbor, nor scold about him; he was too wise for that. Xo
sharp words ever escaped his lips. He also might have been
rich. He knew it. He might have left to his sons many thou-
sands. He knew that also. He had chosen otherwise. Xot a
scholar himself, though a man of rare intellectual quality, he
sent every son he had through college. His sons were proud of
him, and all their friends loved him, he was such a man. But
when all the town was talking of splendid investments, and
was thinking of oil and coal and lands, he was heard to say with
great firmness, and a smile as of one who knew: "I calculate
that I know something about investments myself, having tried
several kinds. And I judge that an investment in Christian
education just about beats them all. It pays big dividends, and
pays them right along. They get better all the time. The
markets do not affect them. I have tried it, . Better put a thou-
sand dollars into the making of a man, than a good many thou-
sands into the making of more thousands." And those who
stood by remembered how the old man's son had been converted
in a Christian college, and how he had gone as a missionary.
And they were silent. The talk of money did not seem to belong
in that' atmosphere. They were thinking of their own boys and
girls. "I give my verdict for Christian education," he said,
moving away. That night in several homes there were councils
and prayers, while children slept, but the next morning for more
than one boy and girl the door to the Christian college stood
wide open. — Pittsburg Christian Advocate.

COLLEGE XEWS

Mrs. Amy Sheldon of Xewport gives $300,000 to the library
of Harvard University.

France will build a great university for the education of
women at St. Germain-en-Laye.

The Board of Estimates for the education of New York
children asks for $21,038,075 for the year 1908.

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James J. Hill has added $2,000 to his previous gift of
$5,000 to the University of Wisconsin for a Railway Library.

The University of Michigan is to have a new chemistry
building which will cost the state $275,000.

Yale University is building a new dormitory on the second
campus, and $150,000 has been appropriated for the purpose.

The late Morris K. Jesup bequeathed $1,000,000 to the
Museum of Natural History of New York. A new building will
be erected.

The Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church have de-
cided to establish a divinity school in Spokane. A president and
six professors will have charge of the work.

At a meeting of the Congregational Club in New York a
short time ago $80,000 was subscribed to the adjustment fund
of Berea College, Ky., to which Andrew Carnegie had pledged
$200,000.

The Boston College Club of Boston has raised over $200,000
to found a new college in that city under the auspices of the
Catholic church. Additional funds are being solicited.

A new agricultural school is to be opened at Northampton,
Mass., within a mile of Smith College. A gift of $300,000 was
left by the late Oliver Smith of Hatfield, Mass. The state will
appropriate about $12,000 a year towards its maintenance.

The United States spends annually $350,000,000 on the
public schools, and 25 per cent of the populace attends sessions
in the schools of the country. In Russia but 3 per cent attend
schools which largely explains the difference in the prosperity
and civilization of the two countries.

The largest attendance at any university in the world is at
the University of Paris which last year had 16,609 students.
The teaching staff consists of 285 professors and instructors.
In the law department 7,182 students were enrolled.

The University of Michigan laid the corner stone of its
Memorial Hall during its last commencement week. The build-
ing will cost $175,000, and will contain memorial tablets com-
memorating the patriotism of Michigan students who served in
the various American wars.

The University of Chicago will erect a Memorial Library
to the late President Harper. It is to cost $800,000 of which
John D. Rockefeller will give $600,000. All but $43,000 of
the desired sum has already been raised. .

The General Education Board recently announced gifts
amounting to $786,500. These all have the condition that addi-
tional sum.- shall be raised. The largest^ single gift was $125,000
to William .Jewell College, Liberty, Mo.

THE

LAWRENCE COLLEGE BULLETIN

APPLETON,

WIS.

VOL. IX.

DECEMBER

1908.

NO

7

The Bulletin is published October, December. February, March, April
Trustees of Lawrence College. Entered at the post office at Appelton

and
. as

June at Appleton. by
second class matter.

CHANGING OUK NAME.

At a meeting of the Board of Trustees held December 2nd, it
was decided to change the name of our institution from Law-
rence University to Lawrence College. The corporate name for
certain legal reasons will still be Lawrence University of Wiscon-
sin, and all bequests and contracts should be made out in this
way ; but the current designation of the institution will from this
time forth be Lawrence College.

The changing of a name held for nearly sixty years is a mat-
ter of such importance and so affects sentiments and traditions,
that it ought not to be thought of but for grave and solid reasons.
Such reasons we believe our trustees had in deciding hereafter to
use the designation, Lawrence College. During the past few
years the educational situation in the United States has been
rapidly changing and has begun to take on organization and sys-
tem. Previously we had all kinds of institutions springing up
everywhere with all sorts of educational standards and equip-
ments, and calling themselves the highest sounding names they
could find in the dictionary. Most of them were conceived in
hope or ambition and executed in folly. Education was not
elevated but degraded by their presence in the field. As time
went on many of these institutions went ^to the wall under the
law of the survival of the fittest. Others still exist and try to
maintain a bold front. In the meantime true educators have
been aroused to feel that something must be done to sift the
chaff from the wheat, and standardize our institutions. Definitions
have been put out by various educational organizations as to what
constitutes a high school, what a college, and what a university.
Statements have been agreed upon as to what endowment, equip-
ment, teaching force, etc., an institution should have to be put
in one class or another. Thus, according to the Association of
American Universities, and also the National Association of
State Universities, the following criteria have recently been
adopted of a standard American university: (a) that the insti-

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tution shall have a graduate school with an adequate course lead-
ing to the degree of doctor of philosophy; and (b) that the in-
stitution shall offer professional courses in law, or medicine, or
engineering, based upon the completion of two years of college
work. We believe this criteria is proper and wise.

Lawrence has never pretended to do university work, but
only to be a high grade college. It does not maintain graduate
courses leading to the Ph. D. degree, nor does it have profession-
al departments in law, medicine, etc. It is, therefore, manifest-
ly best for us to drop a name which, in the growth of education
in America, is coming to have a distinct meaning, and help the
movement of standardization along, by dropping a title given to
us when the distinction between college and university was not
drawn, and enter by name as well as course and work the class
of institutions to which we really belong. We feel that to wear
the name university, and do college work is to sail under false
colors, which it is beneath our educational dignity to do.

Let no one think we shall lose by this change of name. We
believe we shall gain respect in the educational world, and that
the college is beginning a policy which will commend itself to all
informed on educational conditions in America. President
Pritchett of the Carnegie Foundation gives it as his opinion that
we have taken an advance step of great importance. President
Van Hise of the University of Wisconsin writes: "It is the ex-
pectation of the Association of American Universities to go for-
ward with the question of standardization and classification of
colleges. * * * If Lawrence decides to become a college, there
will be no question that she will be able to meet the requirements
of the first grade college. Is it not better to be high up in the
great group of colleges than to retain the name university when
it is certain that from this time forward this term is to have a
definite meaning in America which will not justify Lawrence in
retaining the name unless her resources are to be greatly increas-
ed and the scope of her work vastly enlarged ?" Again he says :
"With the funds which Lawrence has you will be able to main-
tain a very strong college of liberal arts which will do a great
work for the section of the state in which you are located." This
represents our present purpose, to maintain a very strong college
of liberal arts, one which will be a credit to our benefactors and
patrons, and a credit to the great state of ^Wisconsin, one which
will be recognized everywhere educationally as of first rank of
American college.

THE ACADEMY DISCONTINUED.

Laurence began its career as Lawrence Institute, an academic
institution. In L849 the trustees secured a change in the char-
ter, constituting it a college, and in L853 began college instrut-

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tion. During the past fifty-nine years thousands of students
have taken work in the Academy, the attendance in the earlier
years, before the high schools were developed, often reaching
three hundred or more. It has now been decided to close the
Academy with its sixtieth year of school work. No entrance
class will be admitted hereafter, but students who matriculated
this year will be continued in their work until they finish. Ar-
rangements, however, will be made in the future to take care of
those who enter college "conditioned," and who desire to begin
ancient or modern languages. Students who have graduated
from the English course in high schools, and those who have
finished the work in schools having three-year courses, and who
desire to take a college course, will also be provided for.

The reasons for discontinuing the Academy are many. In
the first place the development of high schools is such that it
puts a good high school next to everybody's door. While we still
believe that the old style Academy with its moral and religious
emphasis, its stricter scholastic requirements, and its fine ideals
was a better place to educate a boy or girl than the public high
school, the desire of parents to keep their children at home has
made the attendance at our academies decline, so that the ex-
pense of maintaining them is great. If at Lawrence we had a
good academy building, and a distinct and separate faculty and
equipment, we would consider long before we discontinued the
department. But that is not the case. We have not for some
years put an emphasis upon the Academy and have accom-
modated it in the various college buildings. The large growth in
attendance in the. college department, and the fact that we need
all our room to take care of the college work, and all our teach-
ing force to take care, of the college classes has decided us to con-
centrate all our efforts on the College of Letters, and if possible
to make it second to none in the country. The departments of
Music and Expression will be continued, as they matriculate well
with the college work, and offer decided advantages for college
students themselves. It is not expected to decrease the size of
our faculty by this change, but to relieve teachers who have been
engaged in both departments, and to use Academy teachers as
college instructors and assistants.

The dropping of the Academy will, we believe, add to the
reputation of the college as a high grade scholastic institution.
The strong colleges which have developed in the East, and set the
standards for this type of school, do not maintain academies.
Indeed, there is often a suspicion that a college having an acada-
my is not quite up to grade, and especially if it does not have a
separate plant and faculty. This is not always just, but the idea
pertains. Because of this it is often impossible for graduates of
western colleges to get admittance to certain associations of col-
lege alumni, and to secure the recognition they would otherwise

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like. We expect, as we have already been assured, that this
change having been made, Lawrence will take rank in the first
grade of colleges.

MEETING OF THE TEUSTEES.

A special meeting of the trustees was held December 2, 1908.
A large representation was present and important matters were
considered. In addition to those mentioned above; namely,
changing of the name of the institution, and the discontinuance
of the Academy, special attention was given to the matter of a
dormitory for boys. A competent committee was appointed to
investigate the experience of other institutions with such b>uild-
ings and to decide whether the cottage plan of dormitory, or one
large building capable of housing perhaps 150 students would be
more desirable. A report will be made at the next meeting of the
trustees. Effort is being made to secure the funds with which to
erect the building, a site havng been purchased during the sum-
mer. It is generally felt that this is the next step to be taken in
our equipment. It is hoped that by another year we can have
this much desired building. The attention of the benevolently
disposed is directed to this enterprise.

GLEE CLUBS.

Last year Lawrence had a glee club of which any institution
might be proud. It was received with enthusiasm wherever con-
certs were given. In Milwaukee some of the papers declared it
was equal to the Yale Glee Club or the best that came from east-
ern institutions. The prospects are that the organization will be
even more efficient this year than last, as we have many of the
same singers and some strong additions have been gained from
new comers. Prof. William Harper will act as director of the
club as he did last year. Practice work has already begun and
engagements are being listed. The Glee Club is receiving addi-
tional training in that it is furnishing music for the Methodist
church. It will be accompanied by Prof. Games and have other
attractive features. Those desiring its services should communi-
cate with Mr. Victor Cassidy, the manager.

I')(>ides the Boys' Glee Club we have organized a Girls' Glee
Club which will consist of over thirty members and will give con-
certs in various cities. While this is a new organization the tal-
ent contained in it is exceptionally good. Training is being given
by Prof. Harper, and Mrs. J. F. Garnes, who is teaching in our
School of Expression and has an exceptional reputation as a pub-
lic reader, will accompany the club. The selections are excel-
lent and we are sure lhat the Girls' Glee Club will make a great

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success. Present indications are that it will be equally popular
with the men's club. The manager is Leslie Xewton and any one
wishing a concert from this organization can address him con-
cerning terms.

SELF-GOYERXMEXT AT ORMSBY.

Beginning with the present year we have introduced a system
of self-government in our girls' dormitory. Ormsby Hall. Previ-
ously the Hall has been under the control of a Dean assisted by
teachers on each floor. It was felt that much would be gained
by placing the young women on their own responsibility, as the
best way to develop character is through the participation in au-
thority rather than by having it imposed. The system of self-
government is now largely in use throughout the women's col-
leges of the country and in many co-educational institutions. It
is proving a success, as the dormitories are usually better gov-
erned than under the old plan. In our organization authority is
vested in a counsel composed of the presidents of the three dor-
mitories, a vice president, chairmen of the off-campus committee,
and four members selected at large. The resident teachers con-
stitute an advisory committee. The various dormitories are dis-
tricted and placed under proctors. Rules and regulations gov-
erning the halls have been adopted by the residents and are en-
forced by the officers above mentioned.

While the change from the previous system is somewhat dis-
turbing and it takes some time for the inmates of the dormitories
to become accustomed to the new order of things, there is every
indication that it will prove a success. The system commends
itself to the judgment of the students and no inconsiderable
number are enthusiastic over its benefits: others are somewhat
critical as would be supposed, but there is every promise that the
new system will become generally popular and prove decidedly
efficient.

HOXOR SYSTEM.

The faculty has adopted the Honor System in quizes and ex-
aminations. This plan means that instead of the teachers being
present in the recitation rooms to watch the students in their test
work, they place them upon their honor and are free to remain
or leave the room as they choose. The student is simply required
in concluding his paper to sign his name to a statement that in
the writing of it lie has neither given nor received aid of any kind.
The theory underlying the Honor System is that students will
be more conscientious when trusted than when they are watched.
There seems to be that in a boy which leads him to feel when he
is under surveillance that lie is at liberty to get the better of his

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teacher if he can. The relations are not those of mutual trust
but rather of suspicion. A student, therefore, does not feel the
responsibility for that strict integrity which should characterize
his work which he does when he is placed upon his honor as a
gentleman. This system has worked well in many places and we
believe it will tend to do away with the growing evil of cheating
in quizes and examinations. Authority is vested in a student
committee, and if persons are known to have abused the trust im-
posed in them, this committee investigates the case, sifts the evi-
dence, and pronounces judgment upon the offender. In most
schools the sentence is either suspension for the rest of the year
or permanent expulsion.

STUDENT COUNCIL.

The plan of student participation in college government is
growing everywhere. It is thought that young men and women
of college age are sufficiently matured to be given responsibility,
and that they will grow in earnestness and strength by reason of
this trust. Heretofore the plan has been to rule by law and ex-
ternal authority, this being vested, of course, in the faculty.
While institutions have been well controlled under this method,
it is a question whether the moral strength and manhood and
womanhood of the students have been as rapidly matured as they
would have been under the system which is now suggested. This
has led the authorities of Lawrence to begin the plan of student
co-operation, the first step being the establishment of what we
have named the Student Council. This will be composed of four
Seniors, three Juniors, two Sophomores and one Freshman, to-
gether with the president of the University Club, and three other
members. Through this organization it is expected that student
opinion and desire will be conveyed to the president and faculty.
The council will have charge of various matters which will be
referred to it, such as the conducting of the Honor System, the
management of All College Day, and such other matters as the
administrative officers of the institution may determine. It is
believed that the plan will bring students and faculty closer to-
gether and that the benefits derived will be manifold.

NEW CATALOGUE.

The Catalogue for the year 1908-09 has gone to the printer.
It will be -nine days before it is ready for distribution, but the
name- of persons interested, and especially prospective students,
are earnestly solicited. Any one who has in mind any person
who may desire to continue his education in college will confer
-i favor by dropping a postal to the office giving the individual's

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name and address. The new Catalogue will have in it some
marked changes. It has been entirely re-written and the mate-
rial has been considerably re-arranged. New features have been
introduced and the latest plans of the college are indicated.
The courses also have been considerably altered. Some depart-
ments are much strengthened and in others new courses have
been introduced. As already suggested, this catalogue will be
sent free on application.

HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIP.

A plan has been adopted by the faculty to introduce a system
of honors in our scholastic work. Those who have maintained
certain standards of scholarship will be graduated as honor stu-
dents. The particular designation given them indicating the ex-
cellence of the grade which they have attained.

Besides this a system of departmental honors has been in-
troduced. Students can enter in a department as a candidate
for honors by making application during their Sophomore year.
In order to be accepted they must have received a grade of "A"
in all work then done in the particular department, and not be
below "B" in other work. A student who is a candidate for de-
partmental honors will have certain privileges granted to him
as. freedom from examinations in the subjects taken in the de-
partment. Especial work will be assigned him and some special
privileges and opportunities afforded. He will receive special
recognition at the Commencement at which he graduates. His
name will also be printed in the catalogue in connection with the
honor which he has taken.

It is believed that these measures will do much to stimulate
scholarship and help lift the scholastic standing of the institu-
tion.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

Lawrence has long done most excellent work in the prepara-
tion of teachers. From the beginning of the institution's historv
it has sent into the public schools large numbers of graduates and
of persons who have studied for a few years without finishing
their course. It has upon its honor list presidents and' prof essors
of colleges and universities, presidents of normal schools, profes-
sors of Theological institutions and a large number of principals
and teachers in high and graded schools. It is a matter of interest
to note in statistics which have been gathered concerning the
nearly 500 high school teachers who the present year have re-
ceived their first appointment to teach in Wisconsin high
schools, Lawrence has contributed the fourth largest number out

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of the seventy-one institutions from which these teachers come.
Only one normal school in the state, and no college, contributed
as many teachers as did our institution. Doubtless this work
will continue increasingly in the coming years. It has therefore
been thought desirable to strengthen the Department of Educa-
tion. Several new courses have been organized. The reputa-
tion of Lawrence graduates and the eagerness with which they
are sought by school boards, emphasizes the value of such train-
ing as we are giving for the preparation of teachers. Those who
are looking to the calling will do well to remember that gradu-
ates of Lawrence receive state certificates for life in Wisconsin
and also in many other states. Our elective system makes it
possible for students to specialize and receive an extensive prep-
aration for teaching a particular subject such as is not possible
in a normal school. While normals are excellent for those who
desire to do grade work, we believe the college offers superior ad-
vantages for those who expect to fill positions in high schools and
academies.

THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION OF WISCONSIN.

For a couple of years the Colleges of Wisconsin, the State
University accepted, have had an organization for the control of
athletics. Eepresentatives from the institutions interested met
in conference and drew up a series of regulations which accom-
plished much good and, as far as we know, were faithfully ad-
hered to.

Last winter the students of Beloit College, not being satisfied
with the rule governing special coaches, employed a man to give
them training in Basket Ball. The authorities of the institution
realizing that this was a breach of contract, and not being able
to get the students to stand by the accepted regulations, with-
drew from the association. This led to a subsequent conference
to see if some amendments to the regulations could not be made
which would be acceptable to Beloit and keep the Association in-
tact. After considerable conference it was thought that a new
organization had better be effected and a new system of rules
;iimI regulations adopted. Eepresentatives of the various institu-
tions bad several meetings but were not able to agree upon some
matters which wore regarded as essential. The result was that
when the athletic season opened the present year the situation
was in confusion, the different institutions scarcely knowing
what regulations they were to play under. The president of
Lawrence urged that a meeting bo held at once to settle upon
matters in dispute. Consequently a conference was held in Mil-
waukee a couple of weeks after the beginning of our fall semes-
ter. To the disappointments of the institutions in the previous
compact, neither Beloil nor Marquette bad representatives pres-

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«nt. The four colleges represented drew up a Constitution and
certain rules which were to be submitted to the various institu-
tions. The faculty of Lawrence considered them but did not
accept them as drawn. Certain marked modifications were made
and then they were adopted, these modifications being sent to
the Secretary to be passed around to the other colleges to be
voted upon. We understand that Carroll College did the same.
Northwestern at Watertown adopted the rules with some excep-
tions. For some reason no report was received concerning the
action the other institutions had taken on the adoption of the
rules in any form with the single exception that the faculty of
Ripon notified us that they had accepted the rules as passed in
Milwaukee. There was, however, in the constitution a statement
-that if two-thirds of the colleges adopted the rules they should
be binding on all and if no notice was received within thirty
days, it would be taken for granted they had been adopted. How-
ever, they were not adopted under this constitutional provision
since both Lawrence and Carroll, and perhaps Northwestern,
(although we are not informed), notified the Secretary that the
rules had been modified by their faculties and these modifica-
tions should have been sent forth to be voted upon by the insti-
tutions concerned. The situation therefore is that at the present
time the rules and regulations of this conference have not been
accepted by certain of the colleges concerned; Ripon being the
only institution that claims to be acting under them. It is be-
cause of this that certain difficulties have arisen between institu-
tions in the conference which are to be regretted. The whole
matter largely rests in the understanding about the binding
character of the regulations of the last Milwaukee Conference.
All the institutions doubtless have acted in good faith but their
faculties have seen things in a different way and with a different
"understanding of the situation.

RIPOX AXD LAWRENCE ATHLETIC DISPUTE.

We do not ordinarily feel that published reference should be
made to difficulties which arise between institutions of learning
and would not touch upon the subject here under discussion if
so much had not been said in the public press and if the author-
ities of Ripon College had not seen fit to resort to the procedure,
unprecedented, we think, among colleges of standing, of issu-
ing a bulletin, and distributing it quite universally, upon the
difficulty which arose over a scheduled game of football between
the institutions. We do not wish to do more in this article than
simply state the facts as far as the attitude of Lawrence was con-
cerned. The particular difficulty grew out of the question as to
whether Mr. Bowen, a student at Lawrence who had been a mem-
ber of the Carlisle team, should be allowed to play in the game

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with Ripon. The published bulletin implies, if it does not di-
rectly state, that Mr. Bowen was brought here for athletic pur-
poses. This implication is incorrect. Mr. Bowen was associated
with our athletic director, Mr. Graves, in the Chautauqua school
of physical culture two years ago. They became intimate friends
and Mr. Bowen considered entering Lawrence at that time.
However, opportunities came to him to remain at Carlisle where
he had graduated in 1906 and take work at another school called
Conway Hall. In the summer he corresponded about entering
here in preparation for a course in forestry which he desires to
take. He was expected to reach the institution by the time of
our opening but changed his plans and went to another school.
We heard no more about him until unexpectedly a letter was re-
ceived stating that he was not very well satisfied as the course in
forestry had not yet been introduced and that he would like to
begin his work at Lawrence if it was not too late. He was told
that he could probably make up what he had missed and imme-
diately came on and enrolled as a member of the Freshman class.
There was no understanding that he was to play upon the foot-
ball team, nor was he induced to come here to do so, nor were
financial offers made him. What led him to select Lawrence was
the fact that Dr. Seaver, head of the Chautauqua School of Phy-
sical Culture told him he would credit our work in gymnastics
and he could graduate thus at Chautauqua next summer.

A week or two before the game with Ripon the question con-
cerning what rules we were under, arose. This led^to some corre-
spondence with Ripon and a question concerning Mr. Bowen's
eligibility to play on the Lawrence team was raised. Certain
statements were submitted which had been gathered by the au-
thorities of Ripon to support its contention that he was ineligi-
ble. The faculty at Lawrence gave careful consideration to the
representations, and it is but just to say, was divided in its opin-
ion upon the merits of the case, at first voting not to play him,
rather than have difficulty over the matter raised. It was clearly
recognized both by Ripon and Lawrence that according to the
rules of the minor Wisconsin colleges, Mr. Bowen was not in-
eligible ; but it was found that the Western Athletic Association
had passed an opinion that Carlisle, though a preparatory school,
should be regarded as a college for athletic purposes. If this
were done Mr. Bowen would be ineligible in the Western Associa-
tion under the rule that a student can not play more than four
years on a college team. At the same time it was learned from
Walter Camp, the best authority in the country, that it was a
question which individual institutions had to decide. Some col-
leges held that Carlisle men were eligible and had them upon
their teams, and others held that they were ineligible. We are
informed that at the present time there are Carlisle men playing
in Borne of the mosl respected institutions of the country such as-

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Dickenson, Pennsylvania, and other noted universities. The
question therefore involved was one of judgment as to what was
proper in the particular case. By the rules Ripon and Lawrence
were playing under, Mr. Bowen was eligible, but in the opinion
of many institutions, though not all, he would be considered as
having filled out his term of possible service on a team. The
students at Lawrence took a strong stand in favor of Mr. Bowen.
Finally in a faculty meeting at which not more than a third were
present and by a majority of one, it was voted to play Mr. Bowen.
Subsequently a committee of the faculty met representatives of
Ripon and offered to arbitrate the matter submitting the ques-
tion of the eligibility of this man to the judgment of the presi-
dents of the other institutions in the Association of Wisconsin
Colleges, the eligibility to be considered upon the basis of the
rules and regulations governing the Wisconsin colleges. This of-
fer was rejected and therefore the game was cancelled. We state
the plain facts, believing that both institutions acted conscienti-
ously in the case and only insist that it was not a case of corrupt
athletics, but simply one where there was no rule in the Associa-
tion of Wisconsin Colleges, new or old, which would settle the
matter. The only thing wTe regret is that this unfortunate inci-
dent occurred and that it should have been seized upon as an
opportunity for advertising purposes.

It might be added that last year a case occurred almost
exactly parallel to that of this year, and Ripon took the oppo-
site position. Under the rule for migrants in the Western
Athletic Association and also the Association of Wisconsin Col-
leges, a student cannot leave one institution and take part in
'athletics in another until he has been a student in the latter in-
stitution one year. A student came to Ripon from Xaperville
and was put on the Ripon team. Lawrence raised the question
of his eligibility. Ripon took the ground that the rule in the
Association of Wisconsin Colleges only effected students coming
from those colleges. It seized upon a literal interpretation and
established the precedent for Lawrence in the present case.

COXSERVATORY OF MUSIC.

The Conservators of Music has this year made a fine gain un-
der the efficient management of Prof. Wm. Harper. A strong
faculty of seven persons was gathered during the summer and all
are doing efficient work. The enrollment of students has stead-
ily increased and is now double what it was at any time last year.
Indications are that students will be coming in constantly
throughout the year, as the work being private, they can begin
at any time. Much has been done to popularize the conservatory
and bring it to the attention of the people. , The students recitals
which are given every two weeks well represent the progress

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which pupils are making. The series of artists' concerts has call-
ed general attention to the Conservatory. The first number by
Mr. Bisham of New York, one of the most celebrated artists in
America, won a reputation for the course and assured its success.
Distinguished names on the concert list make it certain that sub-
sequent concerts will sustain the reputation of the first. With
the advertising which will come to the department by the work of
the Glee Clubs, we can see no reason why the Conservatory of
Lawrence shall not grow into commanding influence. The pres-
ence of musicians of such exceptional talent as Mr. Wm. Harper
and Mr. Adams-Buell have given the Conservatory a reputation
which is bearing fruit and will continue to do so. Any one who
knows of any persons desiring the very best advantages in music
will confer a favor by sending their names to the director of the
Conservatory.

PKOFESSIONAL EDUCATION.

There is nothing in which the public is more interested than
in high standards of professional education. When a profession-
al man is employed, interests are committed to him which all
desire to be most efficiently executed. No man can be too well
prepared to handle matters of moment and importance. This
means that professional men should have the very best training
and equipment, but as a matter of fact, in the past, this has often
not been the case. In the first place young men have been per-
mitted to enter professional schools without anything like ade-
quate preparation, and in the second place these institutions have
had meagre equipment, low standards and poor ideals of educa-
tional work.

Pressure has been brought to bear upon them by state legis-
latures and educational organizations and the result has been a
toning up all along the line. However, not nearly as much has
been accomplished as must be if the interests of the public are to
be safeguarded. Eealizing this the trustees of the Carnegie
Foundation at their last meeting in November, appropriated
$18,000 to conduct an investigation on the standards of work of
graduate, medical, theological and law schools in the United
States. Unquestionable this investigation will reveal matters of
a very serious nature. It will show that thousands of young men
are going forth io practice upon the public who are inadequately
trained lor their high responsibility. This will occasion pressure
to be brought upon these institutions which we trust will lead
either to the e!i- continuance or building up of the inefficient and
ilx- hearty support of those which are doing good and honorable
work. We think it will probably assist in the movement now be-
gun by other educationa] organizations to get professional
schools to require ;it Leasi two years of college preparation for

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entrance upon their work. No young man should think of enter-
ing an engineerings law, or medical school, who has not had
at least two years' work above the high school. Teachers should
advise their pupils earnestly not to make the mistake of build-
ing the professional structure on an insecure foundation. We
believe that the time is rapidly approaching when professional
men of the United States will be prepared to render much more
efficient service than has hitherto been the case.

COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS FOR ADMISSION.

The greatest diversity has prevailed throughout the United
States in the requirements for admission to college. In the south
students have been admitted to the Freshman class in many in-
stitutions who would not be above one or two years in a good
Wisconsin high school. In the north some colleges have had the
number of units required for admission as low as ten and eleven
and others as high as sixteen. The Carnegie Foundation, when
it was organized, set the standard as fourteen units for any in-
stitution it would admit to its benefits. Only one college in the
South could come up to these requirements and very many in the
North fell short of them. Lawrence was admitted without modi-
fication of its standards. Since this action of the Carnegie
Foundation, a great many colleges both north and south have
advanced their admission requirements. Very many have now
come up to the fourteen unit standard and others have advanced
to require fifteen units. In the last report of President Pritchett
fifty-eight institutions are reported as having increased their en-
trance requirements during the past year. This is a fine testi-
mony to the work the Carnegie Foundation is doing in stimulat-
ing higher education to more efficient work. Its president re-
ports that during the past year more than five hundred colleges
have been corresponded with on the subject of entrance require-
ments; and that as a result of the work not only have colleges
increased their standards of work, but high schools have been
greatly effected and stimulated. It will not be long before most
of the institutions, of creditable standing, have common admis-
sion requirements and exact common standards of work.

RATHER A CROWD THAN A COLLEGE

A contemporary observes:

"The state universities almost everywhere are growing to
such an extent, that they threaten to undo the very purpose for
which they exist — education.

"It becomes a hard matter to maintain discipline, to any
extent, over thousands of young men and young women, who,

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full of ardent ambition and life, are flocking to the great educa-
tional centers. .The advantage there sought, namely, contact
with truly great teachers of reputation, is more than counter-
balanced by the practical certainty that the size of the classes
will forbid all personal touch with these great teachers and will
compel the student to learn from a tutor.

"This hallucination of seeking 'great teachers' is therefore
usually early dispelled in the university experience of the stu-
dent.

"The numbers are too vast and the danger of this multi-
tudinous herding of young men and women together is begin-
ning to worry the heads of these institutions themselves."

President Angell of the University of Michigan is quoted
as saying:

"I am inclined to think that most of the state universities
are suffering excessive attendance. It is apparent to me that
one of the greatest problems before the universities of the nation
during the next twenty years will be how to administer these
rapidly growing institutions properly."

The Chicago Record-Hlerald says:

"The day of the smaller college is coming again. Of course
the special inducements offered by state universities as public
institutions will always make them popular, but may there not
be some relief because of the preference which many people now
express for small colleges? The country has scores of these
colleges, and not a few of them enjoy an excellent reputation.
They can give as fine a discipline as any of the larger institu-
tions, have the advantage of bringing faculty and students close
together and are freer from distractions than the big rivals.
* * * A professor in one of those vast state institutions told
us some time ago that he would never entrust his son to it for
training. To our question as to the ground for this strange
remark, he said oracularly: 'The gains are too little and the
possible losses too great. I prefer the smaller college/ "

LAWREiNCE NEWS.

A Girls' Glee Club has been organized which has great prom-
ise of success.

The literary societies have taken on new life the present
school year.

The students in the Academy recently took a hay-rack ride to
Mi'iiasha which consummated in a banquet at the Menasha Hotel.

Le Roy Kuehn of Kaukauna, a member of the Freshman
class, was selected as Democrat nominee for sheriff of Outagamie
County to fill the vacancy on the ticket caused by the death of
his father.

Dr. W. S. JSTaylor entertained the students who were in the
city, at his home on Ihe evening before Thanksgiving.

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Delta Iota fraternity recently entertained friends at a dinner
at the Golf Club.

Mr. John Ken da 11, a student of the Freshman class, deliver-
ed several campaign speeches for the Democrat party during the
campaign.

The Artists Series Course gave its second number December
15th. Mr. Earnest Schelling, one of the greatest pianists before
the public, was the attraction. The Conservatory of Music is
rapidly increasing its enrollment. At the present time there
are twice as many matriculations as a year ago.

Prof. Judson Rosebush is expected home shortly after the
beginning of the new year. He will have charge of the classes
in Economics the second semester.

A Lawrence reunion and banquet was held in New York No-
vember 19th. There wras a goodly company present. Speeches
were delivered and a generally good time enjoyed.

The Annual Alumni banquet held in Milwaukee at the time
of the State Teachers' Association, was this year especially suc-
cessful. Some ninety-five were present. Dr. E. C. Updike of
Madison acted as toastmaster. Toasts were delivered by Theo-
bald Otjen, 0. T. Williams, and J. S. Reeve. Prof. Wm. Harp-
er and Miss Ina Miller furnished the music.

The College Orchestra has been organized and is composed
of about fifteen students. There is every prospect of its being
an exceptionally good organization as the talent is promising.
Student recitals are given every two weeks at the Conservatory.

COLLEGE NEWS.

President Benjamin Ide Wheeler of the University of Cali-
fornia, is mentioned as a possible successor to President Angell
of the University of Michigan.

President Charles Eliot, who for forty-one years has been the
president of Harvard University, has resigned. He will be giv-
en a pension of $4,000 a year by the Carnegie Foundation.

Washington University at St. Louis, has been given $250,000
towards an endowment fund of one million dollars which the in-
stitution is seeking to raise. The benefactor is Robert S. Brook-
ings, president of the board of trustees.

President Jacob G. Schurman of Cornell University, was
elected president of the National Association of State LTniver-
sities at its last meeting.

Berea College has lost the legal fight it has been conducting,
the Supreme Court of the United States deciding that co-educa-
tion of the black and white races is illegal. Effort will now be
made to develop a distinct department for colored students.
Andrew Carnegie, and other benevolent men, are giving heavily
for the purpose.

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President Shanklin of the Upper Iowa University, has been
elected president of Weselyan University at Middletown, Conn.
This institution is the oldest in Methodism and has for more
than twenty-five years been presided over by Bradford P. Ray-
mond, former president of Lawrence.

Mr. W. A. Radkin of Tarkio, Mo., has just offered Missouri
Weselyan University $25,000 on condition that the present in-
debtedness on the institution be paid and $100,000 secured for
endowment.

On November 15th Dr. Robert P. Smith was installed presi-
dent of Kansas Weselyan University and at the same time the
cornerstone of the new Carnegie Science Hall was laid.

The University of Denver is building a new Chapel which is
to cost $40,000. The excavation is completed and the walls are
up to the height of the first windows. The subscription for the
building is not yet completed but money is coming in rapidly.

Prof. Charles Wesley Rishell, Dean of the Theological De-
partment of Boston University, is dead. His successor has not
been elected.

John Burnam Brown of Ipswich, Mass., has left a million
dollars to found an institution for the training of men and wom-
en in business.

Chicago is to have a new university. The Illinois College of
Law, Bennett Medical College, Jefferson Park College of Phar-
macy, Jefferson Park Hospital Training School for Nurses,
Jefferson Park Musical Institution, and the Brooks Classical
School, has consolidated for this purpose. An effort is to be made
to secure a large fund for endowment.

Mr. James A. Patton of Evanston, has added $50,000 to his
previous gift of $150,000 for a gymnasium at Northwestern Uni-
versity. It will be one of the greatest buildings of the kind in
the country and is already in process of erection.

Mr. Gleorge F. Parkman of Boston has left legacies amount-
ing to over a million dollars for public causes. Harvard Uni-
versity and other institutions are handsomely remembered.

The will of Henry J. Braker provides a bequest of $500,000
for Tuft's College. With this fund a school of finance and ac-
counts is to be established. The will also leaves one million dol-
lars for founding a Braker Memorial House.

Dartmouth College has just put up a new $100,000 dormitory
which will accommodate 107 men. This institution now operates
eighteen dormitories. The growth of Dartmouth during the past
few years has been remarkable.

The last treasurer's report of Harvard University shows that
the invested funds of the institution lack but $22,000 of reach-
ing twenty million. The university has recently received some
very Large gifts.